It is often assumed that what seems simple may be easy to do.
After all, if it is simple, then there should be no real difficulty in getting it done.
But the reality is that what is simple may seem so ordinary that we don’t really pay much attention to it.
So, simple things like getting enough of exercise and enough of sleep should seem achievable, but we keep putting it off as we think it is not that high a priority.
In the 1st reading, God told Moses to teach the people about the basic and fundamental laws of life.
Those laws are simple enough to adhere to, yet along the way, those laws were repeatedly broken.
As for what Jesus taught in the gospel, again it is actually not that difficult.
Those are ordinary acts of love but it has a consequence on our eternity.
God looks at how we are faithful to the simple and the ordinary.
What is simple and ordinary may sound easy, but it may determine our eternity.